On 9/8/2006, at 8:55, cormullion@mac.com wrote:
Here's some text: (this is a parenthesis in quotes "(") If I put the caret before or after the final quotation and choose Select>Enclosing Brackets, TextMate selects the second opening parenthesis and the closing parenthesis [...] That's a surprise. I'll have problems if TextMate can't handle this situation. Presumably this would show the same behaviour in another language:
Yes, the problem can be found in many situations, however, handling it properly requires AI for many cases. E.g. you often put ( in a regexp, 1) in prose, etc.
It can’t just skip strings (and comments) as these might include structured text themselves for which the user need the functionality -- but I do ponder about making it more scope based.